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Re: Who Won The Space Race?

The real winner of the space race are the people who sit in their homes who watch satellite feeds on the daily news. Governments got to the stroke their egos, but the real benefits were in the scientific and technological advancements, many of which eventually reached the consumer market.

Re: Who Won The Space Race?

Originally Posted by rathi

The real winner of the space race are the people who sit in their homes who watch satellite feeds on the daily news. Governments got to the stroke their egos, but the real benefits were in the scientific and technological advancements, many of which eventually reached the consumer market.

Well the REAL winners are the business folks that are making money off of it.

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Re: Who Won The Space Race?

The space race is still on going. The next leg is commercial flight.

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Re: Who Won The Space Race?

USSR had the first satellite in space, first space station, first man and first woman and first living being in space. That must constitute winning the race into space on every basic level.

Now the US won the race to exploit space, since the US put the man on the moon, and the first reusable space ship. On top of that many of the technologies that the US pushed for to catch up to the Russian's have benefited the free world.

Re: Who Won The Space Race?

Hmmm.....the US was the first to send men behind the moon, first photograph of the whole earth from space, first to land on the moon, first to send a fly by past Mars and Mercury, first to Jupiter, first to Saturn, first to Uranus, first to Neptune, first to send spacecraft into interstellar space, first to land a probe on Mars, first to photograph an asteroid, first to impact an asteroid, first space shuttle, first manned space station (anyone claiming Salyut 1 for this honor must think a woman is no longer a virgin after the first kiss. The crew couldn't get in the door of Salyut 1), first returned moon rock and soil samples, oldest operational spacecraft (Pioneer 6), first car on the moon, first traverse of the asteroid belt.

Russia has, first man in orbit, first crew dead in flight, turtles to the moon, their Venera probes were impressive, including the first strength test of a titanium lenscap on Venus, first to kill a spacecraft with Phobos.

Look, the Russians have many accomplishments, but no honest measure of the Space Race, which concluded with the landing of Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin on the carrier deck, can conclude anything but that the Russians came in second. Races are determined by who crosses the finish line first, people.

Re: Who Won The Space Race?

Originally Posted by Le Marteau

Either way, though, it hardly matters now. There are American, French and Russian cosmonauts on board the Russian-built space station, with shuttles launching from anywhere from Baikonur to Guyana to Florida, working for the benefit of all humanity. Who won the race decades ago is irrelevant.

Hmmmmm there are 15 extant modules of the ISS, can you explain who's working the remaining 10 modules if the Americans, French, and Russians are restricted to the "Russian built" space station?

Re: Who Won The Space Race?

Actually, as much as I enjoy a nice laugh at Sarah Palin's expense, the USSR did win.

There's a reason why Yuri Gagarin in known as the "First man in space" and Alan Shepard is known as the first American in space.

We won the race to the moon.

Unbelieveable....you really are. So you think the race ended at Yuri Gagarin? It was a relay race, he only won the first leg. We buried the USSR in ten years from which they never recovered. How did anything they did benefit the world, what did they advance? This goes to your trigger-happy "Thankers" too.

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